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taxonomic system
noun
A coherent system of taxonomic judgements on circumscription and placement of the considered taxa. A taxonomic system is restricted to a large but limited part of the living world.
Exact(47)
"There's no taxonomic system that could cover the subjects of all these photographs.
Linnaeus designed and developed his taxonomic system by studying and classifying plants.
He translated textbooks and composed "The Loves of the Plants" (1789), which mainly comprises elaborate footnoted verses extolling Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus's taxonomic system.
However, later studies challenged this taxonomic system.
Briefly discuss the taxonomic system codified by Linnaeus (with all taxa, including species).
Additional defining characters are needed to revise the linyphiid taxonomic system based on our phylogenetic hypothesis.
Similar(13)
Early taxonomic systems had no theoretical basis; organisms were grouped according to apparent similarity.
In most taxonomic systems, domestic chickens, turkeys, quail, and pheasant have been placed in the family Phasianidae.
It has been allied in some taxonomic systems to turacos and cuckoos; however, early 21st-century DNA studies clearly refute the proposed cuckoo relationship, though they do not offer a strong alternative.
Often, however, the correspondence between the two taxonomic systems is not as close as in this example, a point quite evident when soil maps of the United States based on the U.S. and FAO taxonomies are compared.
In order to be convenient, the existing taxonomic systems are combined currently.
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